{"id":8623,"date":"2026-10-05T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:11:58","slug":"alex-ovechkin-announces-this-season-will-be-his-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=8623","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin announces this season will be his last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 Alex Ovechkin\u2019s 22nd NHL season will be his last.<br \/>\nThe all-time regular-season goal-scorer in NHL history made the announcement via the Washington Capitals\u2019 social media accounts on Monday, saying that he made the decision with his family and that he knew \u201cin (his) heart\u201d that it was the right call.<br \/>\nThe Capitals play their home opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was important to me to make this announcement before our first home game, so I have the chance to thank all the people around the game, everyone who has been&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 Alex Ovechkin\u2019s 22nd NHL season will be his last. The all-time regular-season goal-scorer in NHL history made the announcement via the Washington Capitals\u2019 social media accounts on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}